By Sahar Akbarzai and Heather Chen, CNNThe daughter of jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny says her father’s health is deteriorating. His life and activism was the subject of an award-winning CNN Film which chronicled the investigation into a brazen assassination on him. In 2020, he was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok — an act he and Western officials blamed on the Kremlin. When asked by Acosta about her thoughts on the imprisonment of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in a Russian prison, Navalnya said that it “didn’t come as a surprise.”“I’m very sorry for his family and that he can’t be home to his kids and he’s stuck in a Russian prison,” she said. “We want freedom of election, we want freedom of all political prisoners, especially Alexey Navalny my dad — and foreign journalists,” she said.

Source: CNN April 30, 2023 02:30 UTC